Metro. Well, I guess I can just send the links through Google photos or use a shared album. I can't believe I just never noticed that. I think it's because that one ended up very pixilated and most are just slightly pixilated. Weird.

Wow... Never really used this function.. I think it was modern in 2011? . With so much messanger now, I don't think anyone need it? - Facebook, Facebook mesanger, Viber Instagram, telegram, kik, snapchat.. Probably unlimited possibilities to use.

Wow... Never really used this function.. I think it was modern in 2011? . With so much messanger now, I don't think anyone need it? - Facebook, Facebook mesanger, Viber Instagram, telegram, kik, snapchat.. Probably unlimited possibilities to use.

A ton of people still use it it in the US since it is built into every phone. My friends won't install anything extra to message and will just continue to text/MMS.

A = Each device has a max set in it that it'll send for file size in MMS.
B = Each carrier has a max that it'll allow for file size in MMS.
C = Each app has a max that it'll allow for file size in MMS.

Whichever is the smallest of A, B & C will be the maximum file size that you can send and it will compress to meet that file size.

The easiest way, IMO, is to share Google Photos by a link to the photo or album, rather than sending the file direct.

Wow... Never really used this function.. I think it was modern in 2011? .

Not really. Back in 2004, we had MMS, but you couldn't send a picture from one carrier to another. Android didn't come out until 2008, when that had all been cleared up. (But we were sending about 384X288 pictures.)

I don't use MMS for image sharing and dislike the idea of adding a third-party app to do just this one task but some of my friends still use MMS for this.

I'll use Google Photos to share images or email them. I've never liked how MMS will squash image size/resolution.

Understandable.

It's all a matter of context for me - if all I'm doing is communicating an idea via a photo or screenshot then the quality of the image isn't necessarily important as long as the idea is communicated. If I'm sharing a portrait or something I'll send via Google Photos link so that they get something of higher quality.

My husband and father aren't on Facebook and never will be. I love WhatsApp but can't get them to use it. I hate Kik, Line, and Snapchat.

It's so bizarre that this is the area where Apple really excels.

It isn't really that bizarre. Apple simply built a system (like WhatsApp) into their OS. That way it is on every single iPhone and usually on by default... Therefore people use it (like the OP) and don't even realize it. Android simply doesn't have a default messenger that Google implements this in.

Google could do it but users on Android can also change over to 3rd party messaging apps for their texts -- iOS can't. They can swap to things like WhatsApp and FB Messenger but if someone sends them a regular SMS it will still go to that default messaging app.